Mar 28 1967
From The Space Library
ComSatCorp's Intelsat II-C comsat successfully relayed test signals over the Atlantic between ground stations at Andover, Me., and the Canary and Ascension Islands. Satellite was scheduled to enter commercial service April 6. (AP, NYT, 3/29;/67, 30)
US. Government would receive in royalties more than the estimated $1.3 billion it was contributing to SST development, ATA President Stuart G. Tipton told the Aero Club of Washington (D.C.) : "The government investment is to be paid back with the 300th delivery. The manufacturer will thus pay royalties of 4.3 to 6.7 million dollars for each aircraft delivered. . . . Since these royalties are to continue for a 15-year period, they will go on well beyond the 300th delivery, and this phase of royalty payment will produce a return on the government investment comparable to levels normally received by industry." (Text)
Soviet astronomers from Ukrainian Academy of Sciences had produced a lunar astronomical almanac containing data on the locations of stars as seen from the moon, Science Service reported. Star charts of the sky from earth become outdated after several years, but a star chart for the lunar sky had to be revised after only several days. Precession of earth's axis causes each pole to complete a cone on the celestial sphere every 26,000 yrs; moon's axis has only an 18.6-yr precessional period which makes construction of a star chart of the lunar sky extremely difficult. (SciServ, NYT, 3/28/67)
FAA announced new safety regulation to protect aircraft from off-course or abandoned balloons. Effective April 28, all unmanned free balloons must be equipped with reflective devices to permit tracking by ground radar and at least two independently operated self-destruction devices. (FAA Release 67-28)
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